11.   This will include lifting remaining restrictions of the sale of oil, easing a severe energy shortage as winter approaches.

12.   Yet Capuano will oppose lifting restrictions on technology exports to China.

13.   Israel announced Monday it was lifting restrictions on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat movements after confining him to the West Bank town of Ramallah for the last three months.

14.   Prime Minister Tansu Ciller on Monday holds out the prospect of lifting restrictions on Kurds, but stands firm on using force to fight Kurdish rebels.

15.   The British former defense minister also called on the United States to help develop European defense by lifting restrictions on exports of military technology.

16.   The Japanese government was late in lifting restrictions on using yen overseas.

17.   The U.S. Congress is considering lifting restrictions on U.S. counterdrug money to fight insurgent groups in Colombia.

18.   Western countries strongly oppose lifting restrictions on ivory, while developing nations say they have more elephants than their land can support.

19.   Western countries strongly opposed lifting restrictions on ivory, but some developing nations say they have more elephants than their land can support.

20.   In their conclusions the observers said they were concerned by the lack of progress in lifting restrictions on freedom of opinion.